Giles Blunt (born 1952 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. His four last novels tell the story of detective John Cardinal, living in the small town of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and Algonquin Bay is North Bay very thinly disguised -- for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay. His first novel, Cold Eye, was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable (Allain Jessua, 1997). The first John Cardinal novel, Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers' Silver Dagger, and the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best novel. His writing has been compared to the work of novelist Ian Rankin. His television credits include episodes of Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat.
Bibliography
- 1989 Cold Eye Avons Books, US & Canada (paperback)ISBN 0-380-70876-0
- 2000 Forty Words for Sorrow Random House Canada ISBN 0-425-18516-8
- 2002 The Delicate Storm Random House Canada ISBN 0-425-19678-X
- 2005 Blackfly Season Random House Canada ISBN 0-425-20957-1
- 2006 By the Time You Read This Random House Canada ISBN 0-679-31244-7 (also published as The Fields of Grief)
